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i don't know if she's necessarily faking bi, but i think the producers probably had a hand in the even-gender-ratio eliminations. i used to work as a production assistant on a few reality shows (home redesign, not dating), and some degree of "tweaking the natural" was often involved.

Andrei doesn't even speak Russian! Someone tried to speak to him and he couldn't respond (even after JUST having claimed to be fluent). And someone should tell him that the Soviet Union collapsed because it sucked.

As for Tila... boring. I think that she is faking being bi so she could star on her own show.

We agree that Rachel was best.

Andrei does speak Russian. I have heard him speak fluent Russian in an interview before.

The Soviet Union did not collapse because it "sucked", it collapsed because of horrible mismanagement during the war in Afghanistan and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The collapse of the Soviet Union was the single largest geopolitical catastrophe since the rise of the third reich, and almost all of the political instability and wars that have gone on in the past two decades can be directly linked to it's collapse.

I don't blame Andrei for supporting the USSR. To Soviet kids of that era (self included), the Soviet Union is all we knew, and the emergence of the post-soviet states seems illegitimate to us. That being said, the lifestyle in the USSR did suck. But the lifestyle in any modern day post-soviet "republic" in that region sucks even more.

There was the "birthday" episode where they all went to a bar for that one guys b-day. Mary Alice sent local big shots to the same place and then the contestants were brought into a room and judged on how well they networked. Andrei made some comment about not speaking English very well because he was Russian and was fluent in 3 languages (Russian, Ukrainian, and something else). One of the guest networking people busted out in Russian and Andrei froze. Then he started making excuses saying that he had forgotten a lot of his Russian. Go watch the episode again if you don't believe me.

There was the "birthday" episode where they all went to a bar for that one guys b-day. Mary Alice sent local big shots to the same place and then the contestants were brought into a room and judged on how well they networked. Andrei made some comment about not speaking English very well because he was Russian and was fluent in 3 languages (Russian, Ukrainian, and something else). One of the guest networking people busted out in Russian and Andrei froze. Then he started making excuses saying that he had forgotten a lot of his Russian. Go watch the episode again if you don't believe me.

I haven't seen that episode, but I have seen an interview with him on the TV guide channel where he said quite a bit in fluent Russian. Is it possible that the person he was talking to in that episode was either not speaking correct Russian himself or was speaking a regional dialect?